라벨이 Googling인 게시물 표시

Checking English phrases using Google

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Written by Liz Whenever you are working in a second language, there might be times where you want to check a phrase you want to use. While it would be great if you always have a native speaker to ask, sometimes there’s no one around. In those cases, there is an easy and democratic way to check- ask the Internet! When I was taking an English academic writing course in college, the professor gave us a tip that I found to be very helpful. If we weren’t sure which phrase to use when we were writing, just go to Google Scholar, type in the phrase surrounded by quotation marks, and see how many responses came up!  As you can see, while “you are now linked to” has only 19 results, “you are now connected to” has 238 results. In addition, when I looked at the results, the results for “you are now linked to” were either 1) from the same paper or 2) not about the subject that I want to write about (software). As such, we can conclude that the more widely used phrase is “you are now connected to,”